4th year PhD candidate Yuanfan Yang writes, “The Lunar New Year, also called Chinese Spring Festival, is a time when families get together in Asian culture. Since traveling home is not encouraged at this moment to fight with COVID, our grad students Nicole, Jennifer and I celebrated the…
Claire Otero, a third year PhD candidate working in the Permar lab, has been inspiring the next generation of STEM students through her work with the Journal of Emerging Investigators, (JEI). Claire says, “I am currently working as one of three head copy editors with JEI, which means that I…
Zoe Loh, a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Pathology, has been awarded the Bass Instructor of Record Fellowship. The Bass fellowship supports high-quality teaching experiences for Ph.D. students where normal means of funding are unavailable. The fellowship provides a funded, semester-long, teaching opportunity for the PhD student to…
Claire Otero was chosen by a faculty panel to be awarded a 1k one time scholarship in the fall of 2020. The winning proposal that Claire submitted outlined a request for using the funds to advance her professional development through enrollment in online coursework to improve her skills in statistical…
At each virtual social in the spring of 2020, a mystery guest joined the students after they had a chance to guess the identity using clues provided. Each guest shared some personal aspects of their lives, how they are coping, and how different life is in this season. It helps,…
The spring of 2020 will not soon be forgotten. It is the semester that everything in the whole world changed forever. Has there ever been an event like the Coronavirus that has both divided and united the whole world? As the PhD students in Pathology were sent home to study…